Main Components of a Computer
# Random access memory (RAM)
# Central processing unit (CPU)
# Input/output (I/O) device
# Hard disk or other mass of storage device
The Solaris Operation Environment
# SunOS 5.x operating system
# Open Network Computing(ONC+) Technologies
# Solaris Common Desktop Environment(CDE) graphical user interface(GUI)
# Open Windows graphical environment
The SunOS Operating System
# The kernel
# The shell
# The directory tree
@ The Kernel
The core of the SunOS operation system
Manages all the physical resources of the computer,
including:
File systems
Device management
Process management
Memory management
@ The Shell
An interface between the user and the kernel
The Solaris Operating Environment supports three primary shells:
Bourne shell
C shell
Korn shell
Additional Shells Supported
Solaris 8 Operating Environment also supports the following shells:
BASH - The GNU Bourne-Again shell
Z shell
TC shell - Teh extended C shell